SciFi and Fantasy Art: Calenthen Dragon Sketches

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Very nice designs on the dragon! The shading's good and I especially love the head and rear leg design of the large dragon on the left. My only suggestion would be to improve on the contrast between shading and highlight on the muscles shown on the dragons' arms and such. You can tell they're there from this scan, but even just adding a little lighter highlights or darker shading to it can turn a good picture into a great one.

Again, very nice! The rightmost small dragon's so cute!

Sarah ('Saja') Kellington replies: "Right. Contrast and detail, contrast and detail *walks away muttering the mantra*"

Your dragons have rear legs like those of humans : it gives them a very strange way of sitting. Still they have this original look, as if they were distant cousins of humans, who had evolued differently, getting back a reptilian shape and a pair of wings. Definitely, they look like plantigrades. But I like the idea. Ils sont vraiment bien, tu sais !Merci! I expiramented with the ways the legs bended a lot. I wanted to have the arms bend like human arms, and that meant having back legs like human legs for stability. The only difference is that they walk on the balls of their feet, so they appear to have an extra joint. I drew a lot of dragon stick figures and skeletons.

That is a really good sketch of a dragon, better then what i can do

Me thinks the smaller ones are just further away ... aside from those of a specific world or context they come in as many shapes and sizes as we care to immagine them though of course ... ~

Cool dragons. Could use a little detail work, but truly very good.Merci. I'm working on more detailed sketches - I tend to work too small, and need to have more physical area ot play with detail.

My experiments with drawing dragons usually come up being too skinny and the scales are all deformed but this work is great. I like the eyes without pupils. It makes them look mystic and ethereal. Good job!Oh, good! Mystic and ethereal was the intent. Other-worldly was what I was going for.

Really great pictures. Im also into drawing dragons. i have a few right now, one is behind the front entrance of a castle. it looks really sweet. You have very good talent. you really do.

I love your dragon sketches. I only have one suggestion that might make it better. Sketch a human face in the back-round since the human in the sketch currently has no face. This is just my opinion but i hope you consider it

The dragons are very good. I like the texture on the dragons.